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Thanks! Much appreciated I didn't know where you got those emails from, but thank you very much.

Hello, AdvancedSetup asked me to post in the Help Desk (I assume this is the Help Desk? If not, then by all means move the thread and pm me). I cannot run Malwarebytes fully, since my computer freezes so often. I can easily run the quick scan, but I've only successfully ran the full scan maybe 2 or 3 three times out of 10. And yes, I do exceed the minimum and recommended requirements for mbam. Assuming they are the same as before. I have a processor of 3mhz and 2gigs of rams. AdvancedSetup informed me that people at the Help Desk could help me in performing other scans to see what the problem is caused by. Below is the thread I had begun, and it contains some inforation and two logs already. http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=107180

Ok, I have scanned once... it worked. Scanned a second time... it froze. Finally, I decided to scan my pc with ad-aware (which I installed two days later), because I knew something was wrong. It found 2 trojans! One of them came back, but I then quarantined AND deleted them, and unchecked the "system restore" box (the one that deletes every single system restore point). I then rebooted and rescanned the system volume information folder, and came up with nothing. Yay! But now (well tomorrow) I have to RESCAN the pc with ad-aware. It takes 3 hours and a half... so it will be painful lol. Should it find nothing (which I hope this is the outcome), I will create a new system restore point - one with no viruses attached, yay! But for now, I am merely hopeful. Anyhow, should this be successful, I will once more scan my pc with malwarebytes. Should after 3 attempts (as long as the first two do not fail), the third one freezes, I will definitely post in the malware removal section, in case I might have another virus.

Ok, I had Comodo, but it caused problems... or so I thought! I believe that in fact it might have been a trial vpn which had me install a driver (untested). I then disabled the vpn driver (and maybe I did a system restore - I cannot remember). Yes, I have done a full disk check (then followed by a defrag). Concerning Spybot, yes I had used the spybot application that I had from before. So I will uninstall and install the newer version then. Currently, I have the following applications running in the background: My antivirus S&D - Resident (a.ka. teatime) (you reminded me of that just now! Thanks) Threatfire I will definitely keep my antivirus running and threatfire. I will not disable either. BUT, I can disable the teatimer I believe until the scan is finished. I propose that I could do this and see if THIS is the culprit (which is possible, since it may in fact be in conflict with Malwarebytes). I will attempt these steps and see if anything changes. If not, them I will do as you have suggested

Thank you for your reply AdvancedSetup. Here are the logs. dds.txt attach.txt

Hello. I use Kaspersky and I run Windows XP, 3rd edition (home edition - 32 bits). Everytime I run malwarebytes (or more like 75% of the time), my computer freezes and and locks up. At best, I can run the quick scan (it doesn't freeze then), but a full scan locks up my pc 75% of the time or so. Sometimes I can scan from between 32,000 files till maybe 120,000 files (or even more). It varies a lot. Everytime I can fully scan, however, it does not find any threats. Furthermore, I have scanned my pc with kaspersky, and even tried to download the fake virus eicar to see if my antivirus was working properly. It prevented the eicar download, so I know my antivirus is working. I checked the forums for solutions, but I'm not sure if any of them apply to my problem. These are the two best solutions I believe may work: -Adding the program to my antivirus list (but I don not know how that works or understand how to do that.) -I am thinking of checking off "Enable advanced heuristics engine (Heuristics. Shuriken)". Malwarebytes ---> Settings ---> Scanner Settings ---> Enable advanced heuristics engine (Heuristics. Shuriken)